Five top books on the telephone

One book on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five books on the telephone:America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940by Claude S. FischerNow that phones go with us everywhere, it's hard to remember a time when we couldn't just call someone on a whim. Chronicling the early decades of telephone technology, Fischer, a sociology professor at UC-Berkeley, examines how its spread